Word: conference
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Like its chemical cousin vitamin A, beta carotene--which is found in carrots, squash and leafy, dark-green vegetables--seems to act like a biochemical broom, sweeping out of the body toxins that can trigger cancerous growth and heart problems. Could taking pills with extra doses of the compound confer some of the same benefits? Millions of vegetable-hating Americans hoped so. Urged on by promotions of the vitamin industry, the public spent $75 million last year on beta-carotene supplements...
...mood that even Louis Farrakhan couldn't spoil. For the Nation of Islam leader who organized the march, its chief purpose may have been to simply prove that he was the man who could make it happen; he would then capitalize on the prominence he hoped it would confer. For most of those who attended, however, the main point was comradeship, pride and rededication to a few core values. The march was also a partial antidote to what may be a creeping sense of despair among African Americans. In a TIME/CNN poll conducted last week, 56% of blacks questioned...
...UNITED NATIONS TURNED 50 this year, and in a historic gathering, more than 100 heads of state and government will celebrate the occasion next week. But as the potentates confer, socialize and speechify at U.N. headquarters and around Manhattan, some clouds will hang over the proceedings. If the U.N. is ever to solve the world's problems, it had better first solve its own, and it has plenty...
...expulsion. He took to the airwaves, decrying the charges against him of sexual and official misconduct and vowing that his decision to fight on was irrevocable. But then certain lights came on. At 12:30 p.m. Packwood slipped into his second-floor hideaway in the Capitol Building to confer with two of his staunchest defenders, Republican Senators Alan Simpson of Wyoming and John McCain of Arizona. Gently, but persistently, his colleagues delivered a firm message: this has got to end. Twenty minutes into the meeting, majority leader Robert Dole joined the session. Ten minutes more and a deal...
...held inside, their hands shackled behind them, were arrested over the weekend and are awaiting arraignment; new detainees are herded in and out all day. In the midst of this noise and mayhem, some of the accused meet their lawyers for the last time before approaching the bench and confer hastily through the metal mesh about their pleas. Though the state affiliate of the A.C.L.U. has brought a class action against Connecticut's indigent-defense system, citing the Cage as one of many degrading and prejudicial conditions in the state, lawyers and defendants alike are accustomed...